That's really cute to have all those gnomes scattered around the city. Do you know why they're associated with the anti communist movement? I think people should start the same movement in all the commie countries
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From what I learned when I was doing my research for the article, the Orange Alternative was rather an avant-garde movement than a political one because you could be persecuted for your political stance way more likely than for being an alternative artist (yet you could be persecuted for that either). So the movement claimed that they were in opposition to the establishment, but focused on painting and spraying gnomes with orange hats across the city. People knew what they meant, so did the police, and that was it. The police wouldn’t do much as any action would mean the establishment admitted that there actually was an opposition and not just a bunch of art freaks.
It may sound weird but it makes perfect sense in a country from the wrong side of the Iron Curtain :) We have similar nonsense stories in our modern history.
Life under the Iron Curtain !!
I know what you mean about articulating a message through other means when you're being silenced by big brother. That happened in China at the end of last year when people held up blank sheets of A4 paper in protest of the zero COVID policy and still being in lockdown when the rest of the world was living a normal live again.
But I definitely like to the gnomes better. I also believe there are many of them in some cities in Ukraine, I wonder if it stemmed from the same movement.
Well, the Ukrainian ones may be actually inspired by those in Wroclaw, see this Wiki entry:
I think the movement should definitely be extended to more countries!!!
A gnome for everyone!